{"id":1116,"date":"2023-08-19T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-19T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=1116"},"modified":"2026-09-27T16:06:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T19:06:42","slug":"minor-super-hero-330-rathia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=1116","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-HERO 330: RATHIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Human Torch v1 005b, 1941)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEh0BwGPDhNhDxsWMmWSjYoDH6xrL6EKwu1_L-hLUO3p9KLGGmUok5iLd1Qi55sQdYzYnU1kicK_g2L946lWuqe8xp5lbOfMnEZz-htQkXbQ9ueK2Du_nNNKQ_WwXzKgBFjzoAOC3p-U6Lx5FJ0Kp8ktdofGgZxrOt6wKWOESW8kRtVBL_qlTILdtr9GqQN_\/w640-h296\/330%20rathia%20human%20torch%205b%201941.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"598\" data-original-width=\"1292\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEh0BwGPDhNhDxsWMmWSjYoDH6xrL6EKwu1_L-hLUO3p9KLGGmUok5iLd1Qi55sQdYzYnU1kicK_g2L946lWuqe8xp5lbOfMnEZz-htQkXbQ9ueK2Du_nNNKQ_WwXzKgBFjzoAOC3p-U6Lx5FJ0Kp8ktdofGgZxrOt6wKWOESW8kRtVBL_qlTILdtr9GqQN_\/w640-h296\/330%20rathia%20human%20torch%205b%201941.JPG\" title=\"rathia\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Bit of an unfair one here: Rathia is a princess of a Baltic kingdom of Atlanteans who persuades the Sub-Mariner to attempt world conquest. She is unquestionably a bad egg but by far the worst crimes of the issue are perpetuated by Namor himself and include: imprisoning and nearly killing Toro, mind controlling the Human Torch, flooding Africa and NYC, sinking the Italian Navy, nearly destroying Moscow and various war crimes. Crucially, Rathia <i>does not<\/i> exert any influence other than puffing up Namor&#8217;s ego &#8211; no mind control, nothing. Maybe a roll in the hay. Despite this, she is the one who stands trial as &#8220;World Enemy No. 2 &#8211; second only to Hitler!&#8221; while Namor just has to look contrite.<\/p>\n<p>In conclusion, this should probably be part of a Yearbook post about Namor but I am aggressively disinterested in him so Rathia takes the hit once again.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEinuctH0aJMgOVg2RHnVh-vO5EPxb6kxBj45rnKmKfW0wWkVYCA6XfxjrWrsIeqqpzBGyqTrfaK9eLJJ_NG6Fq5NiD0jJgBjOcaJpdojQqsgbiS-5JTltKYfWMbxhg2pfkDXvan_oGP49cQMhJ8dfUjusaYooQMkX2MZYazI_nTe1Ngihp1NlVZ1MNw62k2\/w640-h610\/330a%20rathia%20human%20torch%205b%201941.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"961\" data-original-width=\"1008\" height=\"610\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEinuctH0aJMgOVg2RHnVh-vO5EPxb6kxBj45rnKmKfW0wWkVYCA6XfxjrWrsIeqqpzBGyqTrfaK9eLJJ_NG6Fq5NiD0jJgBjOcaJpdojQqsgbiS-5JTltKYfWMbxhg2pfkDXvan_oGP49cQMhJ8dfUjusaYooQMkX2MZYazI_nTe1Ngihp1NlVZ1MNw62k2\/w640-h610\/330a%20rathia%20human%20torch%205b%201941.JPG\" title=\"rathia\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Seriously, look at this guy. Contemptible. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Human Torch v1 005b, 1941) Bit of an unfair one here: Rathia is a princess of a Baltic kingdom of Atlanteans who persuades the Sub-Mariner to attempt world conquest. She is unquestionably a bad egg but by far the worst crimes of the issue are perpetuated by Namor himself and include: imprisoning and nearly killing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,185,46,33,93,24,23,1103,597,470],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14","category-atlantean","category-conquest","category-fatale","category-human-torch","category-marvel-comics","category-minor-super-villain","category-rathia","category-sub-mariner","category-toro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1119,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions\/1119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}